his conscience washed clean by happiness.

Curiosity is the beginning of wisdom.

Nicole had put on weight. This is the effect which, in three cases out of four, unhappiness has upon women. The process of eating guarantees at least the health of the body.

There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.

He was stabbed by memory, that tyrant which impinges upon our dreams and leaps at out throat as soon as we awaken.

We make our own symbols, after the event has passed and begun to spoil.

What we love we may also despise.

Nothing becomes some women more than the prick of ambition. Love, on the contrary, may make them very dull.

Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.

We are born crying, and for good reason, ' he reflected. 'And the rest of our lives is bound to be a muted reiteration of that cry.

He was in that stage of love–and of liquor–where one is completely taken up with oneself, and can get along very well without the other party.

The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.

many people who think they know do not know what they know and only know what they do not know

I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.

The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God.

Keep your secrets Keep your silence It is a better gift than truth

In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.

The thing about Hitchcock is that, however much one dissects him, he still manages to hang onto his mystery. You can never quite get to the bottom of him.

You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have to decide whether the price is worth the prize.

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.